A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestseller Hilary Mantel, author of The Mirror and the LightIn 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London Review of Books, she wrote to the editor, Karl Miller, 'I have no critical training whatsoever, so I am forced to be more brisk and breezy than scholarly.
Social Reform in Gothic Writing provides a transatlantic view of the politically transformative power that Gothic texts effected during the Revolutionary era (1764-1834) through providing fresh readings of canonical and non-canonical writing in a wide variety of genres.
Die Bibliographie weist 4009 Titel nach und gibt einen repräsentativen Überblick über die deutsch- und französischsprachige, die räteromanische und zum Teil auch die italienischsprachige Kinder- und Jugendliteratur.
Dass im Umgang mit Kunst, speziell mit Musik ein Kontakt zu so etwas wie Wahrheit oder Erkenntnis zustandekommt - Intuitionen dieser Art durchziehen nicht nur die philosophische Ästhetik seit mehreren Jahrhunderten.
This book brings to the foreground the largely forgotten "e;Fancy"e; of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and follows its traces as they extend into the nineteenth and twentieth.
This book takes a closer look at the diversity of fiction writing from Diderot to Markson and by so doing call into question the notion of a singular "e;theory of fiction,"e; especially in relation to the novel.
While British drama of the long eighteenth century remains largely unexamined as registering ecological fears, its visual spectacle and settings allow the audience to grasp threats to environments across the globe.
A popular crowd-pleaser in the late 16th and mid-17th century, the dramatic jig was a short, comic, bawdy musical-drama which included elements of dance, slapstick and disguise.
This book examines the intersections between the ways that marriage was represented in eighteenth-century writing and art, experienced in society, and regulated by law.
Will & Love examines four of Shakespeare's love plays (Romeo and Juliet, Troilus and Cressida, Twelfth Night, and Antony and Cleopatra) in light of the Augustinian psychology at the heart of the theological romance tradition.
Das Goethe-Jahrbuch, Publikationsorgan der internationalen Goethe-Gesellschaft in Weimar, bietet Abhandlungen, Miszellen, Rezensionen, Berichte aus dem Leben der Goethe-Gesellschaft und eine jährliche Goethe-Bibliographie.
This book examines the processes for social integration and social cohesion among young people, drawing on data collected from the International Self-Report Delinquency (ISRD) study, which covered 35 studies.
This book argues that the female philosopher, a literary figure brought into existence by Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, embodied the transformations of feminist thought during the transition from the Enlightenment to the Romantic period.
This monograph reorients discussion of Blake's prophetic mode, revealing it to be not a system in any formal sense, but a dynamic, human response to an era of momentous historical change when the future Blake had foreseen and the reality he was faced with could not be reconciled.
This edited collection aims at highlighting the various uses of water in sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth-century England, while exploring the tensions between those who praised the curative virtues of waters and those who rejected them for their supposedly harmful effects.
This volume is a study of the interdisciplinary nature of prison escape tales and their impact on European cultural identity in the eighteenth century.
Diese interdisziplinäre Untersuchung erschließt den Inhalt nur in historischen Publikationen erhaltener und bisher kaum erforschter Texte für den Witwenstand: Witwenspiegel, Gebetbücher, Traktate und Predigten.
Ein kaleidoskopisches Porträt, eine Montage aus zurückhaltend kommentierten Merckschen und zeitgenössischen Schriften, Briefen und Dokumenten - der Freund und Mentor des jungen Goethe, der gefragte Mitarbeiter von Wielands "Merkur", der Autor, Kunsttheoretiker und Cicerone von Herzogin Anna Amalia.
Leading scholars in the field analyze Shakespeare's plays to show how their dramatic content shapes issues debated in conflicts arising from the creation and application of law.
